“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” - Mahatma Gandhi
The horror of the pictures from the conflict in the Gaza Strip continues to assault our senses in all of the news bulletins here and it is hard to ignore this new escalation of the violence in the region. Is peace possible in this troubled land or is Nostradamus right – this is where World War III will start? Is this the Holy Land, where unholy warfare is being carried out and Jews, Moslems and Christians try to outdo one another in the depths of their atrocities?
For Art Sunday today, art and a poem from Palestinians:
Wall Against Our Breath
We witness October in flames,
and every other month following,
is the same, the streets
we walk through a reminder
of who we are and what they will
never make of us…
human portraits in corners
we forget to look at or forget to reach…
pictures stuck on walls as if
they belong nowhere
a groom and bride forced to wed
anywhere but where they should,
and yet, we keep asking:
what victory blows candles out
what sea speaks of another sea
Nathalie Handal
The artist is Faten Tobasi and the title of the work is “View from Akka”
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